Business arising from the minutes

Telstra bill

Health centre

Standing items

Skills.net report

Paolo gave us a report on the current Skills.net numbers. He is
confident that we will reach the target numbers. While access
hours remain an issue, we have systems in place to cope.

Business of the meeting

Disabled Motorists Association

Paolo reported on his visit to the Disabled Motorists
Association. They are keen to work with us to establish a
community access point in thier premises.

Action: Paolo to write back within two weeks, detailing
costs and outcomes. Paolo will draft a letter and circulate it to
the committee for comments before forwarding it to the Disabled
Motorists Association.

Moreland Education Expo

The Moreland Education Expo is on Sunday 24th May. We will have a
stand there, with a computer or two connected to the Internet.

It would make sense to:

Put the Disabled Motorists Association computer
together;

Use it at the Moreland Education Expo; and then

Deliver it to the Disabled Motorists Association when they
are ready.

Action: Paolo and Daniel to organise computers for the
Expo. Action: Geri, Craig, Bill and Paolo to attend on the day.

Insurance

We are covered for public liablity insurance by the organisations
that we work with:ŠCoAsIT, Inca and Brunswick Secondary College.

To participate in the ARCŠTelecentre grant, RMIT requires that
we have professional indemnity insurance. We need to investigate
professional indemnity insurance further. Paolo is waiting for a
broker to get back to him with a quote.

If it turns out that professional indemnity insurance is
required, and the quote comes in at under $500, Chris and Craig
can sign a cheque without reference to the committee.

Action:ŠJonathan to contact Amanda Way at RMIT to check
the insurance requirements of the grant.

ARC Telecentre project

We are in partnership with RMIT and CoAsIT in a successful ARC
grant to design and establish a telecentre in the Moreland area.

The grant will enable Nicola Morelli to design two
telecentres:Šone at CoAsIT and one at Brunswick Secondary
College. CoAsIT will be working with Nicola to establish a
virtual school support system for Italian teachers. Virtual
Moreland will be assisting with technical support.

Other Business

New training courses

Paolo reported that he has a lot of interest in courses for:

on-line trading; and

genealogy.

He asked committee members if they knew of people who would be
willing to run courses. While committee members did not know of
any suitable people, they did come up with some useful
suggestions:

run the first course for free with people who know about
share trading. Run it as an exploration of what is possible and
you will probably get enough information to create a course.

invite one or two people from on-line trading organisations
to talk to the participants.

With regard to the genealogy course, people suggested that the
CAE and VicNet courses are very good, and we should point people
towards them.

ComputerBank

Can they use our Skills.Net training notes? While people thought
that this would be OK, they should probably talk to Skill.Net
first.

Skyary.com/venture

Bill asked people to check http://www.skyary.com/venture/.Š He
was impressed by their training notes and asked people to see
what they thought of it.Š But please ignore the multi-level
marketing part of the system and just look at the training
system.